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General practice in Northern Ireland is now in its “most difficult position ever,” a major summit has heard. Practices are having back contracts in the face of financial and staffing pressures and rising patient needs, the region’s conference of local medical committees heard. Dr Alan Stout, who has been chair of the British Medical Association’s…

Doctors need to maintain “generalist” skills in order to provide care for growing numbers of elderly people with multi-morbidity, the chief medical officer for England has said. CMO Professor Chris Whitty said that governments had not planned adequately for this growing population – warning that the elderly are increasingly concentrated in coastal and rural areas.…

Nearly three million people a month are trying and failing to get through to GP practices, according to a new analysis. A new survey of GP access has been undertaken since May this year and found little change up to the end of October, the Health Service Journal revealed. The survey is a new study…

Practices in Scotland are being encouraged to sign up to a new scheme to provide support for the health care needs of military veterans. The Scottish government said a pilot project had been successful. The project, similar to one in England, will provide training materials for practices along with clinical case studies. Scotland called on…

The government may have sought to avoid difficult issues in medicine, such as the role of physician associates, in the King’s Speech yesterday, according to leading doctors. King Charles delivered the speech to Parliament on behalf of the government – but one senior GP warned of “notable omissions.” There was widespread praise for one significant…

Thousands of staff in general practice may not get a pay rise because of allocation formulas, GP and nursing representatives have warned. Staff have been promised a 6% pay increase – and a 6% increase in funding allocations to practices is due next month. However, the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing…